Month: April 2007

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane & My Left Wing click to enlargeWho would have thunk it? Historically the Walpurgisnacht is derived from Pagan spring customs, where the arrival of spring was celebrated with bonfires at night....

I suffer from clinical depression and sometimes even when you are working with doctors and therapist it can get away from you.  This is one of the reason we need universal health care that include equal parity for mental...

By FU, of course I mean that most eponymous of terms fashioned during Bush era, the Friedman Unit, named after Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, the billionaire pundit who never met a deadline for progress in Iraq that he...

Originally posted at My Left Wing The other day, as planned, I attended the ordination and consecration of Bishop Thomas E. Breidenthal. Well, I didn’t attend all of it–sort of left at “half-time”. But I...

There is one benefit, and probably only one benefit, to laboring under the Bush administration. We are forced to learn all kinds of things about how the government actually works…or is supposed to work. We have to do this...